Information Sheet Creating new options for variety release IS13085

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Information Sheet Creating new options for variety release IS13085
Information Sheet
IS13085
How to order sugarcane tissue culture
Creating new options for variety release
and adoption
An SRA biotechnology innovation for rapid, large-scale
production of clean sugarcane seed cane.
Before ordering sugarcane tissue culture from SRA, please
make sure that you have read and have an understanding
of the farming systems required for successful tissue culture
propagation. You can do this by going to the SRA website and
reading our tissue culture best planting and management
information sheet. To do this from the SRA website, select
Varieties > Fact Sheets > Planting and managing your tissue
culture plantlets in the field.
Who can order sugarcane tissue culture
seed cane:
• Growers via their local Productivity Boards.
• Productivity Boards.
Contractual Agreements you will need to
agree to:
• O
ne between you/your organisation and SRA. (Agreement
for the production and delivery of plantlets to a nursery) –
SRA to organise.
• O
ne between you/your organisation and Nursery.
(Agreement for nursery hardening and growing tissue
culture plantlets to a stage ready for field planting) –
you/your organisation to organise.
Note: You/your organisation may decide to grow out
plantlets yourself at your own risk.
Order process:
1. C
ontact:
George Piperidis on (07) 4963 6805,
[email protected] or
Prakash Lakshmanan on (07) 3331 3374,
[email protected]
Also you will need to be set up in the QCANESelectTM ordering
system as a user and sign the required contracts with SRA on
conditions of agreement to receive supply of Tissue Culture
plantlets.
Note: You have to do this once only.
2. Confirm the amount of material you require. For assistance
use the calculator in QCANESelectTM.
3. C
onfirm the planting date for which you require material
for planting. See the below table for Process deadlines and
choose the order date that you need to consider.
4. C
ontact the Nursery you plan to use to establish an agreed
date for the Tissue Culture plantlets you plan to order.
5. G
o to the SRA website and select Varieties > QCANESelectTM
> To access QCANESelectTM click here > TC Plants > TC Plant
Orders.
Stage
Deadline for
Autumn planting
Deadline for
Spring planting
Grower/Productivity 1 July
Board places order
to SRA
15 November
SRA delivers Mother 15 September
Stock to Tissue
Culture Company
(TCC)
15 January
TCC supplies
plantlets to Nursery
for potting out/
hardening
1 February
1 June (for
Northern options)
15 June (for
Southern
nurseries)
Grower/
Productivity Board
receives established
plantlets from
Nursery
Agreed date
between Grower/
Productivity
Board and
Nursery (should
be ready from
1 March)
Agreed date
between Grower/
Productivity Board
and Nursery
(should be ready
from August)
from SRA and establish an understanding of the relationships
and costs of the process.
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